...whole forms a picture, the beauty and grandeur of which it is easier to feel than to describe. • Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave' vain man below.'' BYEON. THE GLACIERS. The Glaciers are vast accumulations of ice and snow, which occupy...

...throned Eternity in iey halls 3f cold suhlimity, where forms and falls The avalanehe — the thunderholt of snow ! All that expands the spirit yet appals,...show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man helow. But ere these matchless heights I dare to sean, There is a spot should not he pass'd in...

...fertile bounties here extend to all, Still springingo'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits,...

...these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have piunacled in clonds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls...yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man LXIII. But ere these matchless heights {...

...banks, though Empires near tliemfall. But these recede. Above me are the Alpi, The palaces of \ature, . [They bring water — he drinks. I lire again— from henceforth The goblet I reserve j The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, j Gather around...

...irrlilc bouillies here extend to all, VI springing o'er thy bauk\ though empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces...nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their suowy scalps. And throned eternity in icy h.nl-. Of cold suMtniitv, where forms and falls The malanche...

...eye," if not present to his " bodily sense," when he conceived and penned those noble lines : — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around those summits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." All here was still,...

...few detaehed lines is all that is left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow,"— even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man...

...scientific projection of the shadows. Mont Blanc. — Bulcock, Strand. This is a beautiful picture of the — " palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity." It is taken from the vale of Chamounr, and executed with great accuracy and effect, by William Delamotte,...

...few detached lines is all that is left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow," — even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by the ancients...